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From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-07 09:52:28


Daniel Frey wrote:
> Hi John, Hi .*,
>
> Given that I have a string 's' from somewhere, I'd like to create a
> regular expression where some part must match that string. The problem
> is, the 's' could contain characters that have a special meaning in
> regular expressions. Is there some support function that can provide
> an escaped version of 's'? Something that transforms "my.*string" into
> "my\.\*string"? If there isn't, would it be possible/easy to provide
> one?

You can turn on the literal flag type. All characters in your regular
expression are treated as literals.


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